Many New York State Department of Corrections workers are worried about potential staffing cuts at every state prison.

A New York state prison was placed on lockdown after inmates attacked and injured three guards days after concerns of staffing shortages were reported.

Attacks on law-abiding correctional officers by inmates are becoming all-too-routine news items across this region and New York state in recent months. This week’s lockdown at Collins is one more ...

ALBANY — Leaders of the union representing thousands of state correction ... million to expand the department’s partnership with the Correctional Association of New York, an independent ...

"The staffing issue in the Department of Corrections is the number one issue in the state of New York of any agency we have," said NYS Sen. Robert Rolison (R-39th District), while questioning NYDOCCS ...

The commissioner of the state's prison system testified in Albany on Thursday, and said the disturbance at Collins Correctional Facility was a symptom of critical understaffing.

New York State Police say they are monitoring a situation at Collins Correctional Facility. State Police tell us the New York ...

Lawyers say the death of a handcuffed man who was pummeled by New York prison guards was ruled a homicide in an autopsy ...

The Department of Correction took heat from an oversight board for quietly creating a new Rikers high-security unit that may ...

Greene County is mourning the loss of Undersheriff Michael Overbaugh, who passed away unexpectedly Wednesday morning. Overbaugh also served as the Kiskatom Fire Department Chief at the time of his ...

A spokesperson for the Onondaga County Health Department said it could not ... A spokesman for the New York State Correctional Officers and Police Benevolent Association did not immediately ...

In the Brooks lawsuit, lawyers note that CANY “...implored the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision Office of Special Investigations to investigate the widespread ...